Vitamins & Minerals

A meta-analysis of seven clinical trials reveals that taking calcium may yield a weight loss of around 1.5 kilograms per year, compared...

If any nutrient can be referred to as a “rising star,” it’s vitamin D. In the past vitamin D was most...

In your never-ending quest for packing on slabs of beef—or as we science guys call it, “lean body mass”—look to science...

Q: I’ve just gotten back into bodybuilding after taking a break—for about 25 years. Back in the day supplements were very...

The branched-chain amino acids consist of three essential amino acids: leucine, isoleucine and valine. BCAAs are often referred to as the...

If you’ve been around bodybuilding for a while, you know what cortisol is and that it can blunt or even stop...

Bodybuilding is the ultimate “show me” sport—it’s about getting huge and ripped and getting noticed. In bodybuilding one maxim holds true:...

Latest information from the United States. Department of Agriculture suggests that 55 percent of Americans don’t get enough vitamin A. Most...

Vitamin D appears to help prevent diabetes. A study showed that subjects who got more than 800 international units of vitamin...

A number of recent studies suggest that more than 50 percent of Americans are vitamin D deficient—the result of more and...

According to the Vitamin D Council, statin drugs, used to combat high blood pressure and high cholesterol, can impair the synthesis...

Here are a few interesting tidbits from the book Power of Vitamin D by Sarfraz Zaidi, M.D.: • Not technically a...

Our knowledge about the importance of vitamin D in maintaining health and proper hormone levels continues to grow. If you’re not...

Getting enough potassium in your diet means better blood pressure and muscle function. Unfortunately, the Institute of Medicine of the National...

Many nutritionists say that taking supplemental vitamins and minerals is a waste of time if you eat enough of the right...